India, May 7 -- Chandranath Rath, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Suvendu Adhikari's personal assistant who was shot dead in West Bengal on Wednesday night, had gone to his home in Medinipur just hours before his murder, according to his family.

He sat with his family, spoke to them, and left for Kolkata at 2 pm, said Rath's younger brother Dev Kumar.

Rath's mother said that she had cooked food for him and had asked him to come back soon, to which her son replied that he was busy with the upcoming oath-taking ceremony in West Bengal.

Rath was shot dead in an execution-style killing by bike-borne assailants who tailed his white SUV and shot him from close range near Doharia in Madhyamgram of North 24 Parganas.

Rath's inconsolable younger...